Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-29

MA brick, BY which II could b rendered
1Aaolutely sale, thefe heing many places
|tkeA&ouid rsquin but5A low q while 81
|aanil 6ous points they might he Increased
- or Afteensrings, Asin many othee
ratlt4Ad tunnels. He thought. ON 3 rough
sstt11&4 =, il the company could burn its
Aopnst6k hi in the vicinity, the cost would
ret pekAAps exceed 100000. II this is
coySsetsH is the best investment OF that
aas0uut Of money the Northern Pacific
coubpanY an make. 1t cannot afford the
i~nterr6pfion OF traffic and the effect Of rep.
RESERVATIONS made concerning the tunnel II
an additional 5000. 900 will render it's &c.
curity unQuestionable. The extra expense
the company is at as it now IL would pay
the interest and a large percentage OF the
principal annually.
UrAH 4 NORTHERN.
For the last few days a notice has been
posted on the Intel Of the door Of Judge
Dingevon's court Dom calling for sixty
laborers to go down and work on the Utah
l. Northern railway in Beaver Canyon.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. McGrath, who
has had the hiring of the men, was seen
and asked what success he has had in
procuring the required force. He replied
he had shipped men to date n bad pass
es for sixty more. He said that there need
not be an idle man in town il he an per-
form the work which is waiting to be done
in Beaver Canyon. The work on which
this force is to be put is separate and dis
tinct from the broadening of the gauge OF
the Utah & Northern. Ry the 18th Of next
month they expect to switch the track on
the present roadbed on to the broad gauge.
The work now being BODYBUILDING 9 new
track for
THE PERMANENT LOCATION
of the broad gauge will occupy until Octo-
Der. The narrow gauge curves are being
taken out and Strengthened. There is one
place in Beaver Canyon where the perma-
nent track will run half a mile from where
it is now. Mr.. McGrath says that ahere is
work for ten or fifteen men at Big Hole. if
they will go down there. All around there
he reports as still flooded. but the bridge,
80 far, has stood the strain and has sur
vived the immense pressure brought by the
recent foods against it, and, as the waters
now seem to be subsiding, there is no ap-
parent danger to it, nor will there be I'M
less a heavy rain should visit the locality,
in which case it's safety would be decidedly
endangered.
DELAYED BY BLASTING OPERATIONS.
Yesterday morning the S:55 train OF the
Montana Union did not reach South Butte
until 1920. The delay was caused in Sill
yer Bow Canyon by the rock-blasting OF
the track-straightening party of engineers.
The road bed and rails were torn up by a
blaet which also laid low two or three tel
egraph poles and caused a delay of an hour
and a half in clearing away the obstruction
and relaying the track.
A MISUNDERSTANDING.
There seems to be some misunderstand-
ing regarding the Butte Il Helena train
leaving Butte at 7:1O q. m. This train
does not at present run through to Helena
but lays over at Garrison till 5:15 p. m.
when it returns to Butte. As soon as it
resumes it's through run, notice will be given
in this paper.
PACIFIC MEETING.
OMAHA, June 24.-In the Pacific meeting
to-day, Gov. Pattison called on the off.
GERS of the Union Pacific to produce state.
ments showing separately the gross sun OF
payments on account of rebates, pool set.
Elements and overcharges. He gave Traffic
Manager Kimball a list of persons to
whom the Union Pacific had paid rebates in
1885 and 1885. and demanded the reasons
which moved the company to make them,
also whether an officer or attache oil the
road, or public official, had any interest in
the firms to which rebates we're paid. The
Sergeant-at.Arms of the commission re-
ported that he had been unable to serve
subpenas on a number of citizens of
Omaha, owing to the Tact that the
parties were absent. At this one
OF the audience remarked. soto voce, that
these people would probably be absent
as long as the Commission was in session
in Omaha. Erastus Young, General Au-
ditor of the Union Pacific, was examined
at great length IA to the methods of book
keeping. Reports sent to the directors at
Boston did not show the gross receipts of
the company, as rebates were first deduc-
ted. Governor Pattison demanded q state
ment showing the gross receipts from 1869
TO 1909, 20 Uvror Tho whole syotou. Wit
ness promised that the statement would
be prepared, but explained that it would
include all money received by the company
Of which a pro rata proportion belonged
to other roads through freight and passen-
ger traffic. These accounts are not kept
separately.